There had been several attempts to form an imitation Nazi Party in Luxembourg at the time of Hitler’s ascension to power in 1933, but none of these parties…
Category Archives: Foreign Forces
On April 6th, 1941, Germany launched a massive assault on Yugoslavia. Within 12 days of the assault, Yugoslavia was crushed. Four days after the German ass…
The story of Finnish volunteers in the service of the Third Reich began with a series of behind the scenes diplomatic negotiations between Germany and Finl…
In early 1942, Legionary training camps were set up behind the front in the Ukraine, and in the General Government of Poland. At this time the fledgling Ge…
Agitation for the end of British rule in India had existed for decades prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Therefore it was logical for the Axis…
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Belgium’s tiny southwestern neighbor, was invaded by the Germans on May 10th, 1940, and overrun in a mostly bloodless conque…
During World War II a great number of volunteers from Norway served within the ranks of the German Wehrmacht. Prior to 1940, there were few such volunteers, but after the invasion, their numbers increased dramatically totaling around 50,000 by wars end. Nowhere did Norwegians serve in greater numbers than in the ranks of the Waffen-SS, […]
It is not known when and where exactly the first units of volunteers from the USSR, and from the countries annexed by Russia after 1939, were organized to fight against the Soviets on the German side. Their beginnings were shrouded in great secrecy, for fear of Hitler who was categorically opposed to any form of […]
Perhaps one of the most successful volunteer contingents to have fought for Germany, in terms of fierce fighting spirit and battle worthiness were the Spanish Volunteers. The war situation in spring of 1941 was bleak for Great Britain and her few existing allies; the Balkans, Greece, and Crete had fallen in short order beneath the […]
Without going into too much historical detail about motivations such as anti-Soviet sentiment, long-standing ethnic rivalries among the Caucasian peoples, etc, let it suffice to say that a strong tribal – nationalistic sentiment among the Georgians, Azerbaidjanis, Turkoman, Kazaks, Khirgiz, and Uzbeks, just to name a few, was the prime factor upon which the Germans […]